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...When we find prostate cancer," says Dr. Gerald Andriole of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., who participated in the study, "we don't know if it's a killer or a toothless lion - the kind of cancer men will die with...
...shouldn't doctors attack any cancer aggressively? Usually, but in the case of the prostate, things are less clear. Many cases of prostate cancer are very slow-growing, so slow that, depending on a man's age and overall health, he may die of something else before the cancer can ever hurt him. Meanwhile, aggressive treatments, particularly surgery, can lead to impotence or incontinence or both - a high price to pay for a disease that was not going to trouble you much...
...admits that screening tests alone cannot determine which tumors are deadly, and researchers won't know until they follow the study's entire sample group to see how all the men fare well beyond the seven- or 10-year point - which is their plan. Perhaps some whose cancer was not a problem at the decade mark will be claimed by the disease five or 10 years later. "We need longer follow-ups to determine if more screening will translate to fewer deaths," says Berg...
...also one of a new breed of dolls targeted at special-needs kids. Parents in the U.S. and Europe are snapping up Down Syndrome dolls, blind babies, paraplegic dolls in wheelchairs and dolls wearing scarves as if undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. "There's a therapeutic impact," says Helga Parks, who sells more than 2,000 Down Syndrome and Chemo Friends a year through her online Helga's European Specialty Toys. Parks believes her products boost a child's self-esteem by normalizing their condition, and foster understanding among peers: "They take away the fear and sense of alienation for both...
Five years ago, Jewels was firmly on track to continue the family tradition of early parenthood. Her mother is a drug addict, and the grandmother who raised her had just died of cancer. Shifted to a foster home, Jewels turned to sex to find the love and attention her absent family couldn't provide. "I was lost," she says simply. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...